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Summary Job Description Education Skills, Abilities and Interests More Information
Skills, Abilities & Interests

Interest Area
EnterprisingInvolves starting up and carrying out projects, leading people, making many decisions, and dealing with businesses, and it sometimes requires risk taking.

Work Values
Social StatusLooked up to by others in their company and their community.
AchievementGet a feeling of accomplishment.
Moral ValuesNever pressured to do things that go against their sense of right and wrong.
Social ServiceDo things for other people.
SecurityHave steady employment.
Ability UtilizationMake use of individual abilities.
Working ConditionsGood working conditions.
AutonomyPlan work with little supervision.
ResponsibilityMake decisions on your own.

Skills
Active ListeningListen to what other people are saying and ask questions as appropriate.
Service OrientationActively look for ways to help people.
MathematicsUse math to solve problems.
Reading ComprehensionUnderstand written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.
SpeakingTalk to others to effectively convey information.

Abilities
Oral ExpressionAble to convey information and ideas through speech in ways that others will understand.
Near VisionAble to see details of objects at a close range (within a few feet of the observer).
Oral ComprehensionAble to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.